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6/28/2006 iain: [What a Shambles!] Points mean Prizes
Hello again folks, 'What a Shambles!' comes on apace and is almost ready for playtesting, anyone interested?. However I am stuck on one element of the game. I want the…
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Participants: iain, Adam Dray, Zach.

6/27/2006 Nick: Inspiration v. Plagiarism, and other Quandries
Hello All, I've kicked around ideas for a few game designs in my head for the past few years, though none of them have come  to fruition- not that any…
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Participants: Nick, Eero Tuovinen, jasonm.

6/24/2006 Zach Walton: [Sudden Light] Protagonist Generation
Can improvisational exercises contribute to RPG character generation?  I've seen games, such as Primetime Adventures, encourage group kibitzing for generating individual characters and I've found that process to be particular…
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Participants: Zach Walton.

6/24/2006 Noon: Rocks fall, everybody (who bid their HP) dies
It's been awhile since I posted my last design idea.  Some of the insistant responces that turned up with that threw me for a curve ball...like the insistance that a…
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Participants: Noon, TonyLB, Filip Luszczyk, Bill Masek, Adam Dray, Telarus, KSC, Falkayn, Blankshield, jbrandl, contracycle, Caldis, wheloc, Ron Edwards.

6/23/2006 Thunder_God: [Cranium Rats] On Flags Alone?
So, I'm going to continue talking about what I call Blinders, and when it is discussed in terms of games or game-play is often called Constraints. This topic is about…
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Participants: Thunder_God, contracycle, Filip Luszczyk.

6/22/2006 J Tolson: [Twilight of the Gods] Too Complex of a Conflict Resolution System?
Like the title implies, for the last several months I have been wondering if my CR system is overly complex. That is, I would like CR to take up about…
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Participants: J Tolson, charles ferguson, Threlicus, Valamir.

6/22/2006 Zach Walton: [Sudden Light] Good Thing/Bad Thing
Improv. class today covered in several exercises concerning narrative structure.  Perhaps the most fruitful exercise for our troupe was called "Good Thing, Bad Thing" (we discovered later that the professor…
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Participants: Zach Walton.

6/22/2006 thwaak: Recommended Indie RPGs?
Heya Gang, I've found myself moving away from the mainstream, traditional RPGs, and becoming more and more interested in indie RPGs, both in the novel ideas, mechanics, and settings, as…
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Participants: thwaak, Technocrat13, Warren, Paka, Pelgrane, Dantai, Thunder_God, Ron Edwards.

6/22/2006 Dreadmaster: [SIX: Confederacy Working Hidden] Needing a bit of help...
[move]...I'm having a problem with getting on with my story, looks like I need help...[/move] I've got a start on my game ([url=http://www.legendarytales.com])www.legendarytales.com[/url], but that's all I've got... The player…
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Participants: Dreadmaster, jeremycoatney.

6/22/2006 hatch22: Not so idle chat
Greetings everyone.  I'm new at the Forge and would like to pose a question I'm struggling with.  I've been working on a game design for many months now on and…
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Participants: hatch22, Adam Dray, Ron Edwards, Gasten.

6/22/2006 Zach Walton: [Sudden Light] Competitive Narrative Complications
Today, in my improv. class we worked with a few exercises concerning narrative.  For our first exercise, one writer identified three themes or actions relevant to the story they were…
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Participants: Zach Walton.

6/21/2006 Thunder_God: [Cranium Rats] Another View.
The following points have been written by Itamar Parann, he was originally given Beta Version 1.1 on April, in a local convention. He sent me his thoughts but it would…
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Participants: Thunder_God, dindenver, Filip Luszczyk.

6/21/2006 WRPIgeek: [Console] Console Legends quickstart
Hi everyone. I've finished up the quickstart version of Console Legends (previously entitled Console III). If you want to take a look, <a href="http://www.valentgames.com/download/ConsoleLegends.zip">here it is.</a> Comments are welcome, especially…
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Participants: WRPIgeek, Noon.

6/20/2006 Immunis: [d8 system] Using a playing card pool instead of dice
I am in the process of writing my own ‘Universal Heartbreaker’, it’s a system that is trying to provide enough flexibility for any ‘age of gun’ background, i.e. from 1800…
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Participants: Immunis, pells, Aaron, Altharis.

6/20/2006 sean2099: [Divinity] making the conversion from dice to diceless. ( baby rant)
Hi all, I have promised some people here that I would keep them abreast of this process for Divinity.  Here is one of threads I would like to reference because…
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Participants: sean2099.

6/19/2006 iain: [What a Shambles!] Are some mechanics funnier than others?
Following on from the thread here: http://www.indie-rpgs.com/forum/index.php?topic=20144.0 that was about my initial thoughts on the game and how to balance comedy and horror, i had begun to think about system.…
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Participants: iain, TonyLB, Noon, Czar Fnord, davidberg, dindenver.

6/18/2006 somniturne: [Crucible] Steam-punk LARP
Hey all, I've been running WOD larps for a number of years, and have recently gotten the hankering to try my hand at creating a new setting.  The inspiration comes…
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Participants: somniturne, Czar Fnord.

6/18/2006 Dauntless: Lifepath design system?
I like Lifepath systems.  I happen to like systems which have a consistent logic to them and which help guide character development.  I think a properly designed lifepath system gives…
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Participants: Dauntless, Kobayashi, c, dindenver, GregStolze, sean2099, Threlicus.

6/18/2006 sirogit: [Other Family] What more should I add before open playtesting?
This is the latest version of Other Family: http://bmdproductions.tripod.com/of2.html If you've looked at the last version, I'm exploring the weariness token idea, and I'm removed the Hard dice for now,…
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Participants: sirogit, Ron Edwards.

6/17/2006 Zach Walton: [Sudden Light] Basic Improv. Vocabulary
Given that my RPG in progress has changed names and that I'm now following Forge tradition to split topics into separate threads, I'm reproducing some initial reflections below (my last…
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Participants: Zach Walton, reprobate, Graham Walmsley, jasonm.

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6/28/2006 Zach Walton: [Sudden Light] "Yes, but..."
Today, more reflections from my improv. class and some game mechanics for Sudden Light inspired by them.  As a side note, I'm quite amazed at the extent to which running…
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Participants: Zach Walton, iain.

6/28/2006 thwaak: Narrativist CharGen with Gamist Mechanics Behind it?
Hello All, It was inevitable that visiting here looking for indie games would inspire me to try creating my own. I started brainstorming ideas and came up with one I…
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Participants: thwaak, northerain, Certified, ODDin, zmobie, Blankshield, Artanis, Paul Czege, Jixxala, wheloc, Incendiary.

6/29/2006 Caesar_X: [Noir] Accumulated Guilt and The Downfall
"Shared guilt is often the only common bond amongst noir characters" (from this essay on the elements of noir): http://www.crimeculture.com/Contents/Film%20Noir.html I read the above quote again today and remembered a…
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Participants: Caesar_X, Zathreyel, oreso.

6/29/2006 Naarsael: Gears and portals (need more ideas)
I've been working for sometime now on a gearpunk High Fantasy setting for Risus the anything rpg and i seem to be stuck ... I need a new view point…
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Participants: Naarsael, ghashsnaga.

6/29/2006 Incendiary: D6 system, fair / fun for players? Also, background.
Firstly: hi everyone. I am a lapsed RPGer (MERP, WFRP, Paranoia) who has been guided here when I presented some RPGing friends of mine with some random material I was…
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Participants: Incendiary, jasonm, joepub, cydmab, daMoose_Neo, Alex Johnson, billvolk, apeiron.

6/30/2006 Revolution: My new (very rough) game idea
So, I'm working on an RPG. I hope that much should be obvious. Basically, I want to have something with a fantastical feeling that seems realistic. I'll admit that I'm…
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Participants: Revolution, Incendiary, ODDin, daMoose_Neo, Caldis, Noon, Ron Edwards, Call Me Curly.

7/2/2006 sean2099: [Divinity] Testing a mechanic
Hi all, I am asking about this particular mechanic because it is the first one being testing in the PBP I am running.  To make a long post a bit…
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Participants: sean2099, btrc, matthijs.

7/3/2006 Elishar: Armaggedon: First Draft
Every game creator thinks their game is good, otherwise they wouldn't have put all the time and effort into it.  However, like a parent who has an ugly baby, a…
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Participants: Elishar, Caldis, matthijs.

7/3/2006 Zach Walton: [Sudden Light] Putting Aspects In Play
I've been doing quite a bit more thinking about how to integrate Aspects into individual scenes.  Certainly, Aspects could be added simply through narration alone, but since Aspects are so…
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Participants: Zach Walton.

7/3/2006 mila888: cutscenes
can you make cutscenes in your video game
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Participants: mila888.

7/4/2006 Zach Walton: [Sudden Light] Boal's "Theatre of the Oppressed" and Gaming
Recently, prompted by my improv. class, I've been digging into improv. theory in all its surprising permutations.  I've found it quite shocking that many game designers do not rely more…
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Participants: Zach Walton.

7/5/2006 Mr. DNA: Toward Thematic Continuity
Hey all, I've been lurking for a bit, and I finally figured it was time to speak up. I've been playing with this idea for a bit; but I don't…
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Participants: Mr. DNA, Ville Takanen, Call Me Curly, Joshua BishopRoby, Matt Wilson, joepub, dindenver.

7/5/2006 Krystalex: Introduction and general questions about RPG mechanics
Hi!  I'm new to RPGing for the most part (played a touch in the 1990s, but not enough to really remember much), and I've been forum lurking for a bit…
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Participants: Krystalex, Paul Czege, TonyLB, jasonm, Thunder_God, Caldis, nikola, Czar Fnord.

7/5/2006 polyesterjellyfish: [Song Caverns of the Medru] and first post.
Hello. First post here. Like many people however, I've been lurking for a few months trying to soak it all in. And with my first post comes my obligatory first…
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Participants: polyesterjellyfish, matthijs.

7/5/2006 Zach Walton: [Sudden Light] Basic Conflict Resolution Mechanics
I've waited until the last possible moment to outline the general conflict mechanic for Sudden Light.  I've done so guided by the desire to see as many improv. performances as…
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Participants: Zach Walton, matthijs.

7/6/2006 Ville Takanen: [The Stray Path] Group involvment on character creation.
The Stray Path - Or Harhapolku as it was originally deciphered. I have no idea, if this would belong here - or in the actual play forum, so let the…
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Participants: Ville Takanen, Ron Edwards.

7/6/2006 Alex-01: Parallel setting on two different worlds?
Dear role-players, I don`t know if this is he right place, but I have a problem with a background story. There are two worlds: A fantasy world and a…
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Participants: Alex-01, Selene Tan, Ron Edwards, wheloc, Czar Fnord, Jixxala, JayDaWarlord, dindenver, jerry.

7/7/2006 Ron Edwards: Character creation concept
Hello, I had a notion for making up characters a month or two ago, and only mentioned it to a couple of people. Both of them instantly utilized it, so…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Czar Fnord, polyesterjellyfish, Keith Senkowski, greyorm, Noon, Jixxala, Certified, Roger, joepub, timfire, Bankuei, joshua neff, Ben Lehman, matthijs, Call Me Curly, Sydney Freedberg, ChrisJaxn, stefoid.

7/7/2006 Philbo: Idea for an RPG Setting...
Here's my idea in a nutshell... A fantasy role-playing game set in a fictional land based loosely on mythic Greece.  The tone is light-hearted and adventurous, with an emphasis on…
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Participants: Philbo, oreso, ODDin, Caldis, Roger, billvolk, brainwipe, contracycle.

7/7/2006 Noon: Stealing from drinking games
If I wanted to steal certain qualties from drinking games, without using drink, how would I do it? The qualities I'm looking to swipe are: That there is no resource…
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Participants: Noon, Ben Lehman, PhilV.

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